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It has always been customary, around Mirano, to
celebrate the closing of
the agricultural year, on
November 11, eating the
goose. This is because in
this part of the year the
meat of the bird is so fat
and tender that it melts in
your mouth, but especially
because Mirano landowners were largely Jews,
and could not eat pork.
Roberto Gallorini and
Sandro Zara decided to
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